Living the Life of an Artist are thoughts and life happenings that surround me as continual questions, self-doubt, and distractions (okay and perhaps down right laziness) get in the way of being creative.
I want to explore this aspect of being creative. What happens when life gets in the way? How do we move past the self doubt?

Monday, October 24, 2011

Living the Life of an Artist

Sometimes I get so stuck on things that I can’t seem to get out of my own way. On my mind and a top priority is to get a decent system set up for my “business.” Yes, I still struggle with saying that I am running a business. Or is it that I have a business? This was my major resolution for 2011 and here it is coming up to the end of the year and I’m still dithering. Every time I think I have a plan, I can’t seem to put it in place before another idea comes along or I get distracted.

On a positive note, I am further ahead than the beginning of the year. I am going to be so much better. I do have plans in my head. One thing I have realized about myself is that I am very good at coming up with ideas. I am not good at implementing them. How can I change that?

Of course I can say that I can stop thinking that I am unable to implement the ideas, but I just recently realized that aspect of self. In realizing and understanding it, I can change it.

Some of this is holding me back. Okay, maybe it is me holding me back. I struggle with allowing myself to do new work if the old is all disorganized. When I try to re-organize and arrange, my mind gets bogged down and I give up.

These past days find me making another attempt. A new price list has been drawn up. I am making folders for 2012 to better organize the business. Sometimes I wonder if I am making it more complicated than it needs to be. I am plowing ahead. It will happen.